![]() Ricketts, a California marine biologist who inspired the character Doc in “Cannery Row.” After Mr. Bloomsbury is selling an entire box of tragic memorabilia: a pigskin briefcase that belonged to Steinbeck’s friend Edward F. His publisher Pascal Covici worried that Steinbeck seemed “emotionally shattered and mentally confused” in the 1950s, when much of his best work was behind him. The paperwork also conveys psychological turmoil. In a scribbled essay draft about the great outdoors (estimated to bring $5,000 to $8,000), Steinbeck observes, “No marriage, no family can survive three rainy days in a camper.” He sometimes sorted reviews of his work into files labeled “Highly Unfavorable” and “Moderately Unfavorable,” and in his unpublished version of “Don Quixote” ($6,000 to $8,000), he describes his fictional hero Donald Keehan of Manchon as “really off his rocker.” The auction lots reveal moments of dry wit in a writer better known for moral stances. Papers from John Steinbeck’s home office in Manhattan, including this telegram from Henry Fonda, will be sold. ![]() ![]() What great insights did Faulkner, the Nobel Prize-winning Southerner, impart to Steinbeck, the future Nobel Prize-winner in a 1956 note? “You can pretty much disregard some of the October 1st letter,” is pretty much all Faulkner had to say. ![]() Gingerly open a file at random, and you might find cards with inked paw prints from Charley, Steinbeck’s French poodle and frequent travel companion, or a few typewritten lines signed by William Faulkner. “Maybe someone with a fresh set of eyes will walk around it and ooh and aah like I used to.”īloomsbury Auctions in New York will sell boxes of stuffed manila folders on Wednesday, all from John Steinbeck’s home office at 206 East 72nd Street in Manhattan. He has been collecting for three decades, and “it’s getting to be time for it to move on,” he said. Pulice, a publishing executive, said he would probably sell the collection next year rather than squeeze it back into his Manhattan apartment. Pulice’s 300 pieces from the Normandie, including a Bakelite telephone and a blond ash grand piano. Through January the South Street Seaport Museum is displaying a third of the collector Mario J. On Thursday a similar set of Normandie glass sheets did not sell at Christie’s in Manhattan. Its 20 galleries contain a recreated interactive ship’s wheel and S O S signal, in addition to a steward’s master key and the life vest that the pregnant Madeleine Astor wore in a lifeboat while her new husband, John Jacob Astor IV, stayed aboard and drowned.įor the past year the Metropolitan Museum of Art has devoted half of a ground-floor gallery to the Normandie gilded glass wall panels, 20 feet high, show centaurs and galleons. A half-scale Titanic model opened as a museum two months ago in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. The ships of tragedy have also been gaining ground lately at museums. Relics from sunken ships, including this canvas life jacket stamped “Andrea Doria,” will be in a maritime auction. Engraved invitations to parties on the Lusitania in 19 are estimated at $600 to $1,500 each, and a corroded bronze porthole pried from its torpedoed wreckage near Ireland has a high estimate of $5,000. ![]() Poignant relics from sunken ships are coming up on Tuesday at Bonhams in New York, in a maritime sale titled “Life on Board.” A canvas life jacket stamped “Andrea Doria” and three lots with glass drinking vessels and third-class dinner plates with the “Italia” logo have estimates of up to $1,200 each. But now the owners’ holdings are breaking up.Īuctions in the last six years have dispersed a half-dozen collectors’ salvaged material and memorabilia from what some call the “ships of tragedy.” Prices have ranged from a few hundred dollars (for conical crystal glassware from the Normandie at Swann Auction Galleries in March) to $33,900 (a second-class passenger list from the Titanic, sold in 2008 at Philip Weiss Auctions) to more than $100,000 at Sotheby’s and Christie’s for lacquer and gilded-glass Normandie wall panels. In the last few decades collectors have reassembled some scattered contents of infamous shipwrecks like that of the Normandie, which burned at a Manhattan pier in 1942, and the Andrea Doria, which crashed into another ship near Nantucket, Mass., in 1956. The 20th century’s doomed ocean liners keep reappearing as fragments on the antiques market. ![]()
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